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This paper presents a novel method for clustering surfaces. The proposal involves first using basis functions in a tensor product to smooth the data and thus reduce the dimension to a finite number of coefficients, and then using these…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-04 Adriano Zanin Zambom , Qing Wang , Ronaldo Dias

Minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC) is a widely used clustering model, of which the popular K-means algorithm constitutes a local minimizer. It is well known that the solutions of K-means can be arbitrarily distant from the true MSSC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Daniel Gribel , Thibaut Vidal

We present a new subspace-based method to construct probabilistic models for high-dimensional data and highlight its use in anomaly detection. The approach is based on a statistical estimation of probability density using densities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Cetin Savkli , Catherine Schwartz

We give the first outlier-robust efficient algorithm for clustering a mixture of $k$ statistically separated d-dimensional Gaussians (k-GMMs). Concretely, our algorithm takes input an $\epsilon$-corrupted sample from a $k$-GMM and whp in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Ainesh Bakshi , Pravesh Kothari

Denoising score matching (DSM) provides a way to learn data distributions by training a neural network to recover the score function, defined as the gradient of the log density, from noise-corrupted samples. Once trained, the score…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Victor Livernoche , Jie Zan , Reihaneh Rabbany

Modelling of multivariate densities is a core component in many signal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning applications. The modelling is often done via Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), which use computationally expensive…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Conrad Sanderson , Ryan Curtin

Estimating probability density and its score from samples remains a core problem in generative modeling, Bayesian inference, and kinetic theory. Existing methods are bifurcated: classical kernel density estimators (KDE) generalize across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Vasily Ilin , Peter Sushko , Ranjay Krishna

Linear mixed models are widely used for clustered data, but their reliance on parametric forms limits flexibility in complex and high-dimensional settings. In contrast, gradient boosting methods achieve high predictive accuracy through…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-04 Mitchell L. Prevett , Francis K. C. Hui , Zhi Yang Tho , A. H. Welsh , Anton H. Westveld

Score-based Generative Models (SGMs) is one leading method in generative modeling, renowned for their ability to generate high-quality samples from complex, high-dimensional data distributions. The method enjoys empirical success and is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sixu Li , Shi Chen , Qin Li

We consider the problem of estimating the conditional probability distribution of missing values given the observed ones. We propose an approach, which combines the flexibility of deep neural networks with the simplicity of Gaussian mixture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Marcin Przewięźlikowski , Marek Śmieja , Łukasz Struski

Modern scientific studies often collect data sets in the forms of tensors, which call for innovative statistical analysis methods. In particular, there is a pressing need for tensor clustering methods to understand the heterogeneity in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-27 Qing Mai , Xin Zhang , Yuqing Pan , Kai Deng

This letter describes an incremental multimodal surface mapping methodology, which represents the environment as a continuous probabilistic model. This model enables high-resolution reconstruction while simultaneously compressing spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Kshitij Goel , Wennie Tabib

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) are widely used in high-dimensional data analysis to synthesize the interaction between variables. In many applications, such as genomics or image analysis, graphical models rely on sparsity and clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Do Edmond Sanou , Christophe Ambroise , Geneviève Robin

Several machine learning applications involve the optimization of higher-order derivatives (e.g., gradients of gradients) during training, which can be expensive in respect to memory and computation even with automatic differentiation. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Tianyu Pang , Kun Xu , Chongxuan Li , Yang Song , Stefano Ermon , Jun Zhu

Large-scale data collections in the wild, are invariably noisy. Thus developing data pruning strategies that remain robust even in the presence of corruption is critical in practice. In this work, we propose Geometric Median ($\gm$)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Anish Acharya , Inderjit S Dhillon , Sujay Sanghavi

We derive an asymptotic expansion for the log likelihood of Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) with equal covariance matrices in the low signal-to-noise regime. The expansion reveals an intimate connection between two types of algorithms for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Anya Katsevich , Afonso Bandeira

A novel framework of compressed sensing, namely statistical compressed sensing (SCS), that aims at efficiently sampling a collection of signals that follow a statistical distribution, and achieving accurate reconstruction on average, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Guoshen Yu , Guillermo Sapiro

We propose a versatile feedback scheme for both single- and multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. Particularly, we propose utilizing a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) with a reduced number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Fesl , Michael Koller , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

One of the most popular algorithms for clustering in Euclidean space is the $k$-means algorithm; $k$-means is difficult to analyze mathematically, and few theoretical guarantees are known about it, particularly when the data is {\em…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-02 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Sanjoy Dasgupta , Andrea Vattani

We present a one-pass sparsified Gaussian mixture model (SGMM). Given $N$ data points in $P$ dimensions, $X$, the model fits $K$ Gaussian distributions to $X$ and (softly) classifies each point to these clusters. After paying an up-front…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Eric Kightley , Stephen Becker